SB 10.20.22

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Tenth Canto - Chapter 20: The Rainy Season and Autumn in Vṛndāvana

SB 10.20.21 - SB 10.20.23

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Please note: The synonyms, translation and purport of this verse were composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda

TEXT 22

saraḥsv aśānta-rodhaḥsu

nyūṣur aṅgāpi sārasāḥ

gṛheṣv aśānta-kṛtyeṣu

grāmyā iva durāśayāḥ

SYNONYMS

saraḥsu — upon the lakes; aśānta — disturbed; rodhaḥsu — whose banks; nyūṣuḥ — continued to dwell; aṅga — my dear King; api — indeed; sārasāḥ — the cranes; gṛheṣu — in their homes; aśānta — feverish; kṛtyeṣu — where activities are performed; grāmyāḥ — materialistic men; durāśayāḥ — whose minds are contaminated.

Translation and purport composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda

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TRANSLATION

The cranes continued dwelling on the shores of the lakes, although the shores were agitated during the rainy season, just as materialistic persons with contaminated minds always remain at home, despite the many disturbances there.

PURPORT

During the rainy season there are often mud slides around the shores of lakes, and thorny hushes, stones and other debris sometimes accumulate there. Despite all these inconveniences, ducks and cranes continue meandering around the lakeshores. Similarly, innumerable painful occurrences are always disturbing family life, but a materialistic man never even considers leaving his family in the hands of his grown sons and going away for spiritual improvement. He regards such an idea as shocking and uncivilized, because he is completely ignorant of the Absolute Truth and his relationship to that Truth.

SB 10.20.21 - SB 10.20.23